Neighbour kicking off about car

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My neighbour popped a note through the door yesterday asking if we can put both cars on the drive as they're having people round today for a BBQ and would like people to be able to park on the street.
Technically we can fit both cars on the drive way, but you can't get in the garage or shut the gates at the end of the drive, and the cars need to be bumper to bumper and will still overhang onto the path a bit (you can still fit a buggy and wheelchair past). So usually we have one on the drive and one on the street. Street has plenty of parking, no issues here, plus the car on the street gets used most days so is really only there overnight.
So DH went out to work this morning taking the car from the street. I've had neighbour round banging on the door reminding me to put both cars on the drive and pointing to a random car that is parked just a bit up from our house that I've never seen before. It's the same colour as ours but definitely not our car. Neighbour is accusing me of lying and being difficult. He is adamant it's my car and I'm being unfair.
He's gone off in a huff but I can hear them in their garden complaining and talking about coming back to talk with me again.
I'm not worried per se but I'm a bit...antsy? I can't really prove that it's not mine, plus it's legally parked so I really can't see a problem other than them not getting their way.

AIBU to not put the other car on the drive when DH gets home just to antagonise them?

It is nice to be nice, you're right, but why is it that he can be a twat and I have to be nice rather than just neutral?
By parking across the end of the drive, we have not complied and not impacted their guests parking.

I'd have poked my head over the fence and shouted "IT IS NOT MY FUCKING CAR!"

I was going to suggest parking across your driveway - but you've done that anyway - your neighbour sounds like a crackpot!

@BigHeadBertha

I can't speak for anyone else but personally, I would not say anything different regardless of the gender of anyone involved.

It's tempting and deserved to give these childish smart-asses something back, granted. However, if you engage with people who are already showing you that they're kooks, you already know that going with that impulse might cause them to escalate their weird behavior.

Why not just park the cars in the driveway, go in the house and get on with adult life. You don't have to react to every stupid thing some moron does.

I agree. I would be thinking ahead.

@IntoAir

AIBU to not put the other car on the drive when DH gets home just to antagonise them?

YABU. People who run more than one car, and don't keep them on their own property (drive or garage) really can seem selfish. Cars take up so much of our finite resources of space & petrol etc - maybe for once, you could try not to?

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Your neighbour sound very unreasonable and odd. But why are you not parking one car on the drive and one across the end of it most of the time anyway? Why always take up a space on the road someone without a drive or someone with visitors can use?

So how did it end?

Accusing you of a car that isn't even yours 🤣

When your husband gets back park on your driveway. It's one day. Hopefully the other car is still there and he can see what a twat he's been!

But why are you not parking one car on the drive and one across the end of it most of the time anyway? Why always take up a space on the road someone without a drive or someone with visitors can use?

Exactly.

@AnonAnom940

Your neighbour sound very unreasonable and odd. But why are you not parking one car on the drive and one across the end of it most of the time anyway? Why always take up a space on the road someone without a drive or someone with visitors can use?

I thought you could get ticketed if you parked on a dropped kerb regardless of its yours?

Dopplebanger shifted early this morning. Neighbour never said anything after DH threw the corks and haven't seen them this morning

Park both cars on your driveway. Be the bigger person here. Life is shit enough at the moment.

@ConsuelaHammock

Park both cars on your driveway. Be the bigger person here. Life is shit enough at the moment.

I mean...it happened last night soooo....

you can still fit a buggy and wheelchair past

IME, people who think you can still get past with a wheelchair have no experience of using a wheelchair. Unless the pavement is double wide, if you park on it even a bit, there isn’t enough space for a wheelchair user to easily get past.

Oh god your neighbour sounds like a right twat. I'd have been tempted to take a picture of doppelganger car and your car and post it through the letter box

@MintyMabel

you can still fit a buggy and wheelchair past

IME, people who think you can still get past with a wheelchair have no experience of using a wheelchair. Unless the pavement is double wide, if you park on it even a bit, there isn’t enough space for a wheelchair user to easily get past.

Well the lady in a wheelchair up the road seemed to manage

Not with my council. Park totally on road so no wheels on pavement or dropped bit the only person who can report to parking warden for a ticket is person who owns the property for the dropped kerb. Unless there is a yellow line.

Now you know he's a cunt, but your first indication was his request. No one owns the road.

Just park in your driveway, how ignorant

Just park in your driveway, how ignorant

Did you actually read the thread (when the issue was still relevant)?

After the past year, everyone’s a bit on edge, but your NDN sounds on another level. Completely unreasonable. Park your car where is convenient to you.
If he’d been nicer about it, different matter.

Have a great weekend!

OP you did nothing wrong... your neighbour was being a Prick from beginning to end. He treated you as such because he mistakenly believed that 'other' car was yours.. then he and guests throw bottle corks into your garden like twats ... because he still mistakenly believed that 'other' car was still yours... He's a bullying Prick and I hope he is ashamed of himself for creating an unnecessary situation.

So just to clarify... YOU did nothing wrong... Neighbour is still a PRICK. 🌸

No wonder so many people have issues with their neighbours. I don’t get why anyone wouldn’t just park on their drive for the day. It’s hardly like they are asking you to do it every day. To then also decide to just park on the road to deliberately antagonise them is just petty.

@OwlTwitterings I think people have issues with neighbours who are rude, aggressive and entitled. It’s hardly endearing.
If your neighbour was polite and courteous and didn’t have a go at you for a car parked up the street legally, that was nothing to do with you, everyone’s lives and co-existence would be much simpler.

@OwlTwitterings

No wonder so many people have issues with their neighbours. I don’t get why anyone wouldn’t just park on their drive for the day. It’s hardly like they are asking you to do it every day. To then also decide to just park on the road to deliberately antagonise them is just petty.

Are you the neighbour?